I’ve Held a Saltwater Crocodile!

13Jul

See.

Proof!!

You have to believe me now don’t you.

This picture was taken quite some years ago. I was in my early twenties and visiting an off-the-beaten-track crocodile farm. At the time I was obsessed with crocodiles. I still think they are awesome creatures.

Anyway, when we arrived the rogue owner plonked this crocodile down on the canteen table. It just sat there and didn’t move so we thought it was stuffed. The man walked off telling us to feel free to pick it up and have our photo with it, so we did. My then 7 year old sister and my 9 year old brother had their photos taken first. Then I posed for mine and it moved!! It flicked its tail and tried to swim away in midair. Well, let me tell you, the photo after he moved would have told a whole different story to this one.

Knowing crocodiles as well as I did at that time, I was well aware of the damage one metre ‘Gertie’ could do to me. Oh yeah, she had a measly piece of sticky tape on her snout. I suppose that was supposed to make me feel safe and secure.

Well this experience was only the beginning of this rather ‘interesting’ tour around this crocodile farm. Fear oozed from every pore throughout the visit. In hindsight it was one of my favourite tours.

Nowadays crocodile farms are so sterilised and ‘safe’ that you might as well stay home and read about them in books! 🙂

For your educational benefit, here’s a little blurb about Saltwater Crocodiles that frequent a lot of waterways in Northern Australia.

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I am a homeschooling mother of two boys, aged 14 and 12 years. We live in Australia and have never sent our children to school...except to visit with their Daddy, my Dh. He is a school teacher (as I was too, a long time ago).

"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices." ~Horace Mann